Wilco Versteeg

Latest Stories

In Harry Gruyaert's Radical Street Photography, Color is the Defining Element

No matter where he turns his eye, the Belgian photographer constantly explores the potential of color in a seemingly colorless urban world.

Photographs Do Not Stop Wars

The celebrated photojournalist James Nachtwey has covered global conflicts for four decades. But in his current retrospective, politics is an afterthought.

Roaming Without End

A group exhibition in Paris navigates documentary strategies in a directionless world.

The Loneliness of the Darkroom

In his solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Dirk Braeckman turns toward the existential

The Joy of Photography

An exhibition in Amsterdam revisits Ed van der Elsken’s passionate vision of twentieth-century life.

The Ready-made Dream No One Believes In

In Europe and the United States, Stéphane Duroy charts the course of “big” history.

Louis Faurer's Postwar New York

In the late 1940s, the photographer’s photographer reveled in the contradictory energies of urban life.

The Camera Selects the Man

In a retrospective at LE BAL in Paris, Gerard Petrus Fieret’s subversive images reveal the libertine atmosphere of 1960s Europe.

When Women Get Involved

Two Paris museums put women photographers in the spotlight. But are gender-specific exhibitions relevant today?

Get Aperture Magazine

Aperture 254

Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…